An Avenger dies, a villain is defeated and Bendis ends the first storyline of the New, New Avengers disappointingly. Also, Wolverine is a total wimp… seriously didn’t he used to be a bad ass? Also when does Dr. Strange get his redemption? Damn haters
As announced on GeekWeek Live!, within a week since the polls have opened, Top Cow Productions, Inc. is proud to announce voting for Pilot Season 2010, an annual initiative by the publisher where fans decide a book’s fate, has hit over 100,000 votes. The winner of Pilot Season 2010 will be announced Wednesday, December 1.
“100,000 votes in just 11 days!” exclaimed Atom! Freeman, Top Cow Director of Sales & Marketing. “If the candidates I voted for in the last general election had worked as hard as our cadre of creators in getting out the vote, I wouldn’t have cried quite so much last Tuesday.”
Cassandra Cain is back. That name is enough for a lot of the former Batgirl’s fans to feverishly grab up this issue, but to be warned Cassandra is not in the issue enough for a reader just interested in her to be satisfied. There is enough of an enticing epilogue and nice artwork to have others happily pleased with this well-crafted epilogue to the Hit List storyline. You can still skip it and you will not be missing a piece of the plot, but you will miss out on a lot of other things.
After a month of waiting, it’s finally here! The next installment of the Artifacts series and it almost hits all the great moments and art in the previous two issues… but it does lack some structure and does not live up to the first two issues. That does not mean it still isn’t a powerful issue full of wonderful artwork and colors. The battle is beginning in this issue as Sara and the others battle off evil demons and Aphrodite goes around the world assembling a team against her!
Soldier Zero continues! Wheelchair user, Stewart Trautmann recently bonded with an alien parasite called Soldier Zero! Both will have to adjust and learn how to live with one another to become one of the greatest heroes known to Earth. While Stuart’s older brother James, isn’t to sure about the alien parasite living on Stuart. James will have to accept his brother’s decision and stop being overprotective of him. With all this and more Soldier Zero is being written by Paul Cornell (Action Comics) and artwork by Javier Pina and Sergio Arino. Stan Lee is the inspiration of Soldier Zero!
Marc Guggenheim (the man responsible for Wolverine coming back to life from his own blood) teams up with first time writer Tara Butters to create yet another super-hero book. The story begins in the Middle East as “Jarhead” the super soldier has been sent to find Bin Laden. He easily tears apart the religious fanatics that seem to have all but given up on fighting. After practically killing all of the reluctant soldiers, he discovers that Bin Laden’s own men had killed him three days prior.
Anya Corazon (also known as Araña) is about to become the new Spider-girl. This has been a long anticipated action, thought of by fans who first saw Anya in “Amazing Fantasy #1” back in 2004. Finally, Anya will be Spider-girl in her second ongoing series, debuting next Wednesday.
Fans of the original Spider-girl, May “Mayday” Parker are unfortunately going to yet again lose a series with this beloved character since Marvel does not want to have two ongoing series with characters using the same moniker. Resentment and mixed feelings about Anya as Spider-girl have yet to make it clear if the book will sell well or not. Creators promise fans that if they liked the original Spider-girl because it focused on a young girl trying to live up to Spider-girl’s name, they will not be disappointed here.
